The International Committee of the Red Cross said it was transporting the bodies of Marie Colvin and Remi Ochlik to Damascus.

Today’s news came after Syrian activists uploaded videos on YouTube showing the burials of the two journalists and the Red Cross claimed it had been barred from entering the Baba Amr district where they died by Syrian authorities.

Ms Colvin had been hailed as the greatest war correspondent of her generation, while French photographer Mr Ochlik had recently won the World Press Photo award for his work in Libya.

Their apparent burials coincided with the last of four other journalists injured in the attack that killed their colleagues escaping into Lebanon.

Edith Bouvier appealed for help and to be evacuated from Homs (Pic: YouTube)

French journalists Edith Bouvier and William Daniels were smuggled into Syria’s neighbour, while Spanish reporter Javier Espinosa also escaped.

Le Figaro writer Ms Bouvier, who French president Nicolas Sarkozy confirmed had entered Lebanon alongside Mr Daniels, sustained multiple leg fractures in the attack upon a media centre in the Baba Amr district of Homs on February 22 that killed Ms Colvin and Mr Ochlik.

British photographer Paul Conroy, who also sustained serious leg injuries in the attack, has returned home after being evacuated to Lebanon earlier this week.

But while the group’s time in Syria came to an end, the daily struggle to survive continues in Homs, although an unofficial truce has been declared to allow relief workers in.

Yesterday fighters from the Free Syrian Army called a tactical retreat from Baba Amr with their ammunition running low and humanitarian conditions becoming unbearable.

Hours later troops loyal to President Assad granted permission for the International Committee of the Red Cross to enter Baba Amr, although the Red Cross subsequently said it had been blocked from entering the war-torn district.

Stills from YouTube videos show the names of French photojournalist Remi Ochlik and Sunday Times correspondent Marie Colvin (Picture: YouTube)

Humanitarian workers had been appealing for weeks for access to areas of Homs to deliver food, water and medicine, as well as to evacuate the wounded.

The videos claiming to show the burial of Ms Colvin, 56, and Mr Ochlik, 28, could not be independently verified.

A man identified as Dr Mohammed Ahmed al-Mohammed, who frequently appears in activist videos from Homs, said the bodies were buried on February 27 because the neighbourhood was running out of electricity.

He praised the killed reporters for sneaking into one of the most dangerous neighbourhoods in a city under siege in an uprising that has killed more than 8,000 according to activists.

‘Marie Colvin was martyred in Baba Amr because she was sending a heavenly message, a humanitarian message,’ Dr al-Mohammed says in the video.

‘Does it make sense that America in all its greatness could not stop Assad from launching rockets at Baba Amr and could not remove Bashar from his seat?

‘May God be merciful to her,’ the doctor said in the video as dirt falls on Ms Colvin’s body, wrapped in a white shroud. ‘Only God can help us.’

In a separate video purportedly showing the burial of Mr Ochlik, Dr al-Mohammed adds: ‘He will remain eternally in our minds because he sent the true voice, the true picture and the true reality of what is happening here.’

President Sarkozy confirmed last night that Ms Bouvier and Mr Daniels were in Lebanon.

‘I had (Ms Bouvier) on the phone,’ he said. ‘She is with her colleague, outside Syria. She has suffered a lot, but she will give the details herself.’

Mr Conroy and Mr Espinosa were smuggled into Lebanon a day earlier in an operation said to have killed 13 activists.